• 1. If you don't have basmati rice for surprised guest cook rice with little
water. You wont have any problem.
2. If onions are not at home then you can use cabbage instead of waiting.
3. Wipe your kitchen platform with vinegar, there will be no ants on your platform.
-Ruchika Kashyap, Nagpur
• Don't throw away orange peel, dry them and use it in cakes and desserts. This will improve the flavor of the dessert.
-Guest
• Always-dry roast spices like cumin seeds, cardamom, cloves, coriander seeds etc. on a gridle, before powdering. The grinding will be done faster and powder will be finer.
-Mohini Agarwal, Madhya Pradesh
• If bread slices have dried up, cover it in muslin cloth and steam it. They will become most and fresh.
-Mohini Agarwal, Madhya Pradesh
• While making raita, give it a hing and zeera tadka like dal. This will enhance the taste of the raita.
-Mamata Garg, Lucknow
• In summers, ice cream melts before you can serve it. If you chill the serving bowls before serving them, the ice cream lasts longer.
-Rajni Bhist, Kotdwar, Uttaranchal
• To prevent ice-cream from melting before serving, freeze the serving bowls for at least 60-75 minutes.
• Do not throw away dry potato sabzi, instead mash and add besan or suji and curd to prepare thick batter. Fry small balls and an instant snack is ready to serve.
• Puree tomatoes and freeze it in an ice tray to store for longer. All you need to do while preparing a dish is to thaw it. This will be convenient.
-Anonymous
• To prevent green chillies from turning red rub them with turmeric and store them in a jar.
-Shiren Shiekh, Karnataka
• Instead of throwing away the lemon peal, add chilli powder, salt, sugar and lemon juice. Cook for two to three minutes, Khatta-metha Nimbu pickle is ready.
-Sweta Puranik, Surat
• In a recipe where you put in cabbage, if you want to avoid the smell of cabbage then put little pieces of ginger or else add ginger juice to it.
-Anonymous
• While making prawns, insert a thin stick into them. They will not curl while frying.
-Mrs Susan Cherrian, Kerala
• To prevent dough from drying, coat the dough with a little bit of oil. the dough will not dry out.
-Shyamlee, Bhopal
• While grinding whole red chillies in a food processor, add a few drops of mustard oil. The powder will be of a much brighter colour.
-Meenu Gupta, Bangalore
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